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#2 2009-02-19 12:31:52
Re: Latest driver updates
Lots of new drivers and firmware on our website:
- Firefaces Windows to 2.95
- HDSP and HDSPe series to 3.074
- Firmware updates for HDSP MADI/AES-32/9652 and HDSPe MADI/AES/RayDAT, Win, Mac Intel and Mac PPC.
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#3 2009-09-11 03:26:14
Re: Latest driver updates
There is a new firmware 1.69 for the Fireface 400, Mac and Win:
SPDIF output: Channel Status Consumer changed to IEC 60958-3 (DS/QS). QS output signal improved.
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#5 2009-09-28 17:23:29
Re: Latest driver updates
Finally the Fireface 400 and 800 driver catches up with the HDSP and UC drivers. Version 2.98 for Windows includes the latest TotalMix design and features, plus lots of fixes and improvements.
This driver is also directly compatible to Windows 7. BUT: it seems the new Microsoft FireWire driver included in 7 suffers from unexpected bad performance when used with audio. Performance is really bad, operation limited, behaviour unexpected - in short: lots of problems at this time. We are in contact with MS about these issues to fix them on either our or their side.
Therefore, for the time being, please continue to use 7's legacy FW driver as explained here:
http://www.rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5305
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#10 2009-11-07 10:18:54
Re: Latest driver updates
After we got written confirmation from Microsoft that the bug that we found in their Windows 7 driver will not be fixed for (most probably) a year, we decided to use a different transfer method for the FireWire audio data, a method that we use under Mac OS X anyway and which is correctly supported under Win 7 with the new native FireWire driver.
The result is released as driver version 2.998 and firmware 2.77 (FF 800) and 1.70 (FF 400).
This combination solves all bugs and problems that the new FW driver in Win 7 caused. It has been tested on several systems and should have the same performance as the former driver.
Note that firmware 2.47 (FF 800) is no longer compatible to the new driver!
Note that there is no Mac driver or firmware update necessary, the current Mac driver can be used with both the old and new firmware.
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#11 2009-12-14 19:21:33
Re: Latest driver updates
Version 2.999 fixed a minor problem (red LED did not go off after Win64 sleep).
Version 2.9991 finally removes the MME support. MME had been implemented by a system-wide wrapper, fireface _mme.dll, that - simply said - translated MME commands to WDM commands. MME is dead as it can be, no longer supported in 64 bit OS, and therefore no longer present in the Fireface UC. As preparation for the next 3.0 driver we now removed this one too.
Now the list of available devices is more clear and easier to overlook, and one can no longer select the wrong (MME) one for system sounds and multimedia.
We also had a note from Pace who saw problems with our dll when installing their products. Note that if you had an older driver installed before and want to get rid of it completely you have to manually delete the file fireface _mme.dll, as the new driver will (can) not remove the dll. It just makes it unavailable for the current driver, but it is still in the system.
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#13 2010-01-27 18:25:56
Re: Latest driver updates
Mac driver 2.65 might not be the problem solver for everyone, but works much better for many, so we decided to put it on the website officially. Note that we are still examining and working on this issue.
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